Rob Walling

When you have a weakness and you know about it, you can work around it. If you're the founder who bounces from one thing to the next to the next, who follows each distraction, who maybe has a little bit ADHD, whether it's clinical or whether it's just something in your personality, and you realize, you know what?

When you have a weakness and you know about it, you can work around it. If you're the founder who bounces from one thing to the next to the next, who follows each distraction, who maybe has a little bit ADHD, whether it's clinical or whether it's just something in your personality, and you realize, you know what?

I'm never going to focus on anything long enough to build something great, then you can acknowledge that weakness and stick with things longer than you think you should. But if you're not aware of it, how can you work around it? If your weakness is that you don't like doing hard things or you don't want to do or work on anything that you don't want to work on,

I'm never going to focus on anything long enough to build something great, then you can acknowledge that weakness and stick with things longer than you think you should. But if you're not aware of it, how can you work around it? If your weakness is that you don't like doing hard things or you don't want to do or work on anything that you don't want to work on,

and let's say you're a maker, you're a builder, and you want to write code, you want to build websites, you want to build products, if you know that's a weakness and you'll listen to this show or you'll read books about this topic or hear opinions and advice,

and let's say you're a maker, you're a builder, and you want to write code, you want to build websites, you want to build products, if you know that's a weakness and you'll listen to this show or you'll read books about this topic or hear opinions and advice,

from folks in your mastermind, or if you're in a community like MicroConf Connect, wherever you are getting advice, if you don't realize that you're constantly doing that and avoiding the hard things and only really doing what you want to do and justifying it with, well, that fits for my personality, you have a blind spot.

from folks in your mastermind, or if you're in a community like MicroConf Connect, wherever you are getting advice, if you don't realize that you're constantly doing that and avoiding the hard things and only really doing what you want to do and justifying it with, well, that fits for my personality, you have a blind spot.

And the way to know you have a blind spot usually is if you have smart people around you, successful, smart people who are kind of all telling you the same thing and you keep not listening to them and you're not finding the success that you want, you You probably have a blind spot. Blind spots are really tough. The hard part is you don't know you have them.

And the way to know you have a blind spot usually is if you have smart people around you, successful, smart people who are kind of all telling you the same thing and you keep not listening to them and you're not finding the success that you want, you You probably have a blind spot. Blind spots are really tough. The hard part is you don't know you have them.

And turning blind spots into weaknesses and learning about a blind spot and kind of admitting that you just have that as a weakness eliminates it, right? So how do you learn about your weaknesses? Well... I think there are three ways, right? There's introspection. There's asking yourself, why do I fail at things? Am I the one that starts too many things and never finishes?

And turning blind spots into weaknesses and learning about a blind spot and kind of admitting that you just have that as a weakness eliminates it, right? So how do you learn about your weaknesses? Well... I think there are three ways, right? There's introspection. There's asking yourself, why do I fail at things? Am I the one that starts too many things and never finishes?

Am I the one that never starts things after I finish? Am I the one that makes too much? I avoid conflict. I avoid doing hard things, things I don't want to do like marketing or sales. Do I avoid hard work? Maybe my weakness is I just never learned how to work hard. I don't have any discipline. Maybe my weakness is I'm really disorganized. I think there's some introspection to be done here.

Am I the one that never starts things after I finish? Am I the one that makes too much? I avoid conflict. I avoid doing hard things, things I don't want to do like marketing or sales. Do I avoid hard work? Maybe my weakness is I just never learned how to work hard. I don't have any discipline. Maybe my weakness is I'm really disorganized. I think there's some introspection to be done here.

I do think personality tests have been helpful for me. I'm not going to prescribe them for you, but I have taken four, maybe five, and I think I listed most of them earlier in this segment, but I have found those helpful for identifying potential weak spots. I remember the Enneagram is really good at this.

I do think personality tests have been helpful for me. I'm not going to prescribe them for you, but I have taken four, maybe five, and I think I listed most of them earlier in this segment, but I have found those helpful for identifying potential weak spots. I remember the Enneagram is really good at this.

It will say this is a strength and here's the shadow side of that strength because every strength we have when taken too far is a weakness. And I think the Enneagram does a good job of identifying that. So personality test is number two. The other one is people around you. And whether you need to ask them, like, what are the things that I keep screwing up that you've noticed?

It will say this is a strength and here's the shadow side of that strength because every strength we have when taken too far is a weakness. And I think the Enneagram does a good job of identifying that. So personality test is number two. The other one is people around you. And whether you need to ask them, like, what are the things that I keep screwing up that you've noticed?

And again, this is, maybe it's your spouse. These are hard conversations. I mean, it can be hard to hear this and just admit like, yeah, that's me. This is something, this is a blind spot that I have that I'm going to turn into a weakness. Again, having strengths and weaknesses is human.

And again, this is, maybe it's your spouse. These are hard conversations. I mean, it can be hard to hear this and just admit like, yeah, that's me. This is something, this is a blind spot that I have that I'm going to turn into a weakness. Again, having strengths and weaknesses is human.